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  • Netherlands: Regime allows Tesla owners to use some self-driving features

    Source: CBS News

    “Tesla owners in the Netherlands can now use their cars’ self-driving feature — with some conditions — making it the first European country to approve the feature. The country’s RDW agency for roadworthiness certifications said Friday that Tesla’s driver assistance system can now be used in the Netherlands ‘with possible future expansion to all member states of the European Union.’ The agency said drivers would need to be in the vehicle and keep a watchful eye on it. The move aligns the Netherlands with what is allowed in the United States, where Tesla owners can already use the Full Self-Driving (Supervised) function in the cars.” (04/11/26)

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/netherlands-tesla-self-driving-features-europe/

  • US House: Swalwell, Gonzales to face expulsion votes

    Source: Axios

    “Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) plans to force a vote to expel Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) next week over sexual assault and misconduct allegations, Axios has learned. Swalwell denies the allegations. Democrats are set to respond by moving in turn to expel Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas), who’s being investigated by House Ethics over sexual misconduct allegations, two Democratic leadership aides told Axios. Swalwell has faced calls from Democratic Party leaders and House colleagues to drop his bid for California governor, though few have called for his outright resignation or expulsion from Congress. … Gonzales, who has dropped his bid for reelection, admitted to an affair with a staffer who later died by suicide, calling it a ‘lapse in judgment.'” (04/11/26)

    https://www.axios.com/2026/04/11/eric-swalwell-expel-tony-gonzales-sexual-misconduct

  • UK: Regime thugs abduct hundreds at protest against Palestine Action ban

    Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]

    “Police have arrested hundreds of people during a mass vigil in central London to oppose the ban on campaign group Palestine Action. More than 1,000 people gathered in Trafalgar Square for the demonstration on Saturday, with many holding signs saying, ‘I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.’ Police carried many people away from the demonstration. At one point, an elderly woman with walking sticks was escorted away by police. The Metropolitan Police said they arrested 212 people for allegedly showing support for a proscribed orgnanisation.” (04/11/26)

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/11/police-begin-arrests-at-uk-protest-against-palestine-action-ban?traffic_source=rss

  • Family sues US regime over eight-year-old’s post-abduction death

    Source: Seattle Times

    “The Honduran family of an 8-year-old girl with a heart condition who died in U.S. custody after crossing the border in 2023 sued the federal government on Friday. Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez, who had chronic heart problems and sickle cell anemia, got sick with flu-like symptoms and died after being [abducted and] detained for eight days in a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility in Donna, then later Harlingen, Texas. An internal CPB investigation found failures in providing proper medical care and that medical personnel did not review documents the mother offered which described the girl’s sensitive condition. In custody, Anadith had a high fever of 104.9 F as well as nausea, breathing difficulties and pain.” (04/10/26)

    https://archive.is/LixCo

  • Iraq: Kurdish politician Nizar Amidi elected president amid war fallout

    Source: ABC News

    “Iraq’s parliament voted Saturday to elect Nizar Amidi, a political official with one of the country’s two main Kurdish parties, as president, five months after a parliamentary election that didn’t produce a bloc with a decisive majority. His election comes as Iraq is reeling from the fallout of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Iraq became caught in the middle of the conflict, with Iran-backed militias launching attacks on U.S. bases and diplomatic facilities as well as on critical energy infrastructure. Meanwhile, the U.S. and Israel carried out airstrikes targeting the militias, some of which killed members of the Iraqi military.” (04/11/26)

    https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/iraq-elects-kurdish-politician-nizar-amidi-president-amid-131951211

  • US Appeals Court Declares 158-Year-Old Home Distilling Ban Unconstitutional

    Source: US News & World Report

    “A U.S. appeals court ⁠on ⁠Friday declared unconstitutional a nearly ⁠158-year-old federal ban on home distilling, calling it an unnecessary and ​improper means for Congress to exercise its power to tax. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ‌in New Orleans ruled in ‌favor of the nonprofit Hobby Distillers Association and four of its 1,300 members. They argued ⁠that people ⁠should be free to distill spirits at home, whether as a ​hobby or for personal consumption including, in one instance, to create an apple-pie-vodka recipe. The ban was part of a law passed during Reconstruction in July 1868, in part to thwart liquor tax evasion, ​and subjected violators to up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.” (04/10/26)

    https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2026-04-10/us-appeals-court-declares-158-year-old-home-distilling-ban-unconstitutional


  • America’s Massive Foreign Policy Blunder in Iran

    Source: Exiled Policy
    by Jason Pye

    “Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are trying to sell the war with Iran as a show of American might. Sure, the bombing conducted by the United States and Israel set Iran back substantially, taking out a number of top officials. That’s only one element of the war. Overall, the war has been a foreign policy blunder that combined strategic overreach, economic self-sabotage, and rhetorical escalation into a single, costly episode. It may well leave the United States with fewer options, higher prices at home, and an adversary that, in some ways, looks more entrenched than before. This war didn’t begin the way the White House now frames it. It wasn’t an unavoidable response to an imminent threat that left policymakers with no choice.” (04/10/26)

    https://exiledpolicy.substack.com/p/americas-massive-foreign-policy-blunder

  • Gov’t Pushing Gov’t

    Source: Common Sense
    by Paul Jacob

    “Why, asks the MacIver Institute, ‘is the government lobbying the government?’ MacIver calls itself Wisconsin’s ‘free-market voice.’ It is a privately funded outfit that makes the case for less government in the Badger State. It has to earn its funds from donors who can, at any moment, stop donating money. One of the things the MacIver Institute found itself up against are other think-tanks and apparently donor-funded organizations advocating for more government in the state, for more programs, bigger programs, and more taxes to feed all the great new stuff. And it turns out that several of these advocacy organizations are themselves funded by government!” (04/10/26)

    https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/04/10/govt-pushing-govt

  • An unpardonable abuse of presidential power with only one solution

    Source: Washington Post
    by George F Will

    “Yet another reason that Donald Trump’s and Joe Biden’s presidencies cannot be examined without wincing concerns a constitutional provision that is obscure until it is abused, which it now often is. The presidential ‘power to grant reprieves and pardons’ has become yet another source of political brutishness fueling voters’ cynicism.” (04/10/26)

    https://archive.is/Uin1w

  • Trump’s Words Cannot Be Unseen

    Source: Free Association
    by Sheldon Richman

    “[T]he American people and the rest of the world saw the president of the United States threaten to destroy the 2,500-year-old Persian civilization. More than half of the Iranian population is ethnic Persian. It’s my policy not to compare anyone to Hitler, but I’ll say this: Trump’s threat was Hitlerian. Further, anyone who stuck by Trump after that post exhibited the same disgusting reverence that many Germans felt for Hitler.” (04/0/26)

    https://sheldonrichman.substack.com/p/tgif-trumps-words-cannot-be-unseen

  • We Are the Barbarians

    Source: The American Conservative
    by Harrison Berger

    “On Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to declare that ‘a civilization will die tonight.’ By 8 p.m., the U.S. announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran had begun. Whether the ceasefire holds (or even takes hold) is already in question …. The best hope that it might stick comes from Israel, where TV presenters who spent Monday salivating over a clock counting down the minutes and hours until Trump’s planned genocide of Iranians were left confused and outraged when the president backed down shortly before the deadline. But whether or not Trump ultimately goes as far as the Israelis would like him to, Americans must now reckon with the destruction already carried out in our name, the civilization-destroying actions Trump has threatened, and the barbarians we have become in the process.” (04/10/26)

    https://www.theamericanconservative.com/we-are-the-barbarians/

  • The Warehouse Arsonist Is No Working Class Hero

    Source: Independent Institute
    by Kristian Fors

    “People on numerous subreddits have rallied to support the recent warehouse arson in Ontario, California. This fire, allegedly started by a disgruntled employee, destroyed a 1.2 million-square-foot warehouse that supplied toilet paper to approximately 50 million people. According to the United States Attorney’s Office, this fire caused approximately $500 million in damage. As he started the blaze, the suspected arsonist recorded a video of himself saying, ‘All you had to do was pay us enough to f***ing live.’ … While the economic frustration the suspect and people on Reddit feel is perhaps understandable, they should blame the real culprits behind the cost-of-living crisis, not a toilet paper company.” (04/10/26)

    https://www.independent.org/article/2026/04/10/warehouse-arsonist-no-working-class-hero/

  • Lawsuits Targeting Social Media Are an Attack on Free Speech

    Source: Reason
    by Steven Greenhut

    “Tech companies that create social media apps should not be blamed for the complex mental issues of everyone who might use them.” (04/10/26)

    https://reason.com/2026/04/10/lawsuits-targeting-social-media-are-an-attack-on-free-speech/

  • When War Teaches Medicine

    Source: Brownstone Institute
    by Joseph Varon

    “War is the most unrestrained expression of humanity’s destructive capacity, a setting where order disintegrates, moral boundaries are tested, and life is reduced to its most vulnerable state. Medicine, by contrast, stands as a deliberate act of resistance against that collapse, a disciplined and unwavering commitment to preserve life even when surrounded by death. Despite these opposing identities, war and medicine have remained deeply intertwined across history, not by design, but by inevitability.” (04/10/26)

    https://brownstone.org/articles/when-war-teaches-medicine/

  • Humanity Lost in Space

    Source: Law & Liberty
    by Titus Techera

    “Americans are falling in love with Project Hail Mary, a movie about an astronaut who finds himself alone at the end of the universe, with perhaps no hope of ever returning among mankind. He then has to figure out how to save mankind in very difficult circumstances, by his wits and his technical know-how. A man a lot like the navigator-turned-shipwreck Robinson Crusoe, so much so that it’s worth comparing them, their stories, and why they matter to modern society.” (04/10/26)

    https://lawliberty.org/humanity-lost-in-space/

  • Can Trump’s Maritime Plan Save America’s Struggling Shipyards?

    Source: The Daily Economy
    by Mohamed Moutii

    “For a nation that dominates the seas, the United States now faces a critical crossroads. Its commercial shipyards — once the envy of the world — have fallen into near collapse. The Trump administration’s 2026 Maritime Action Plan aims to reverse this decline with sweeping fees on foreign-built ships and subsidies to revive domestic production and rebuild the maritime industrial base. Yet rather than confronting the structural causes of decline, Washington has turned to familiar tools: protectionism, subsidies, and penalties on foreign competition. America’s shipbuilding troubles did not begin with foreign rivals — and they will not be solved by taxing them.” (04/10/26)

    https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/can-trumps-maritime-plan-save-americas-struggling-shipyards/